AN160141 – Gold Mining Consolidated Award 1980
(1) Subject as hereinafter provided an employee shall be entitled to payment for non-attendance on the ground of personal ill health for one sixth of a week for each completed month of service. Payment hereunder may be adjusted at the end of each calendar year or at the time the employee leaves the service of the employer in the event of the employee being entitled by service subsequent to the sickness to a greater allowance than that made at the time the sickness occurred. This clause shall not apply where the employee is entitled to compensation under the Workers' Compensation Act.
(2) An employee shall not be entitled to receive any wages from the employer for any time lost through the result of an accident not arising out of or in the course of that employee's employment or by any accident wherever sustained arising out of own willful default, or for sickness arising out of that employee's own willful default.
(3) No employee shall be entitled to the benefits of this clause unless that employee produces proof satisfactory to the employer of sickness, but the employer shall not be entitled to a medical certificate unless the absence is for three days or more.
(4) Sick leave shall accumulate from year to year so that any balance of the period specified in subclause (1) of this clause which has in any year not been allowed to any employee by the employer as paid sick leave may be claimed by the employee and subject to the conditions hereinbefore prescribed, shall be allowed by the employer in any subsequent year without diminution of the sick leave prescribed in respect of that year.
(5) The provisions of this clause do not apply to casual employees.
